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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: Enterprise Ireland client companies have continued to generate increased jobs growth. They recorded the highest overall rise in employment levels in the past decade, with 5,442 net new jobs, some 3,620 of which were full time, at the end of 2013. Moreover, they provide employment for 175,750 persons, comprising 149,718 full-time and 26,032 part-time workers. We recorded export sales of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: Enterprise Ireland's network of international offices now extends to 30. We opened two new offices during 2013, in Istanbul and Austin, Texas. Some 815 new overseas customers were secured for client companies, 38% of which were in high growth markets. In addition, 111 of Enterprise Ireland's high potential start-up companies secured their first new international reference company in 2013....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Online Business Voucher Scheme (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: In the past decade the influence of the Internet on the economy has been growing steadily, about which there is no doubt. In 2013 Indecon Consultants estimated that digital‐related activities contributed 4.4% of GDP to the economy. The consultants predicted that this contribution would increase by 16% year on year. Almost 95,000 jobs are already supported by digital-related...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Online Business Voucher Scheme (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: There is strong recognition by the Government of the size of the spend and its impact on GDP. The advent of the online trading vouchers through the local enterprise offices, LEOs, is a concrete policy intervention in recognising this trend and providng funding towards supporting businesses. On the eligibility criteria, the vouchers will be available to a maximum figure of €2,500....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Online Business Voucher Scheme (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The important point is that we have recognised the potential value and created a solution through the roll-out of the trading online voucher sheme. In terms of the early results under the pilot scheme, seven out of ten companies stated the voucher application process had already helped them to determine how online trading would fit into their businesses. Some 70% of the companies involved...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: Is the Deputy speaking from experience there?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: During the Irish Presidency in June 2013, the Minister, Deputy Bruton, secured the agreement of all trade ministers in the EU Council, to formally open negotiations with the US on a transatlantic trade and investment partnership, TTIP. At a time of high unemployment we must grasp every opportunity that adds to the momentum of recovery that Government policies are achieving. In particular,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: We are looking at this from the point of view of the upsides and are not viewing it from the point of view of the downsides. We will do a proper analysis, but it is being undertaken with a view to an economic win.

Topical Issue Debate (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: To be helpful, as the Minister dealing with the first matter has not arrived, I suggest we take the second matter first.

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Deputy Stanton for raising this matter. Both Deputy Stanton and I are playing as a tag team in respect of this issue because it is pertinent to our constituency. The area referred to has been identified by my Department as one of the areas where due to demographic changes it is projected that there will be a requirement for significant additional school provision at both primary and...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I understand that the site notice is up for Gaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann. I think that was the project referred to by Deputy Stanton.

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The Deputy and I have been through the process of teasing out the site acquisition. I suppose that it is one of the flaws in the system, notwithstanding the fact that there is a memorandum of understanding with the local authority, when one is seeking to acquire privately owned land and there is a market value on the land. There is an inherent challenge there because of the constitutional...

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Grant Administration (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: It is ominous that she sent me here to reply.

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Grant Administration (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I am taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton. As the Deputy said, we acknowledge the crucial role carers play in society. In 2014 the estimated Department expenditure on various supports for carers will be almost €886 million, comprising approximately €557 million on the carer's allowance, €21.5...

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Grant Administration (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: There is a recognition of the work carers do, which is part of the Irish psyche and the intergenerational solidarity that exists here. I do not know if the Government will increase the payment because we are not in a position, regarding the budget arithmetic, to ascertain whether there is scope to do so.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Supports (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Sherlock: Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) was formally launched on 28thof May 2014. KTI is hosted in Enterprise Ireland and now operates as Ireland’s central point of reference for business-research partnership and commercialisation. It will act as a neutral space to support interactions between companies and higher education institutions. The aim of KTI is to support the State in maximising...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Oversight (17 Sep 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1180, 1215 and 1216 together. The protracted crisis in Syria has resulted in immense humanitarian need. More than 190,000 people have lost their lives, and there are now over 10.8 million people within the country who are in need of immediate life-saving support, 4.7 million of them in areas that are very difficult to access. There are a further 3 million...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The Government's main funding to development NGOs under the aid programme is managed by the Civil Society and Development Education Unit of the Development Cooperation Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This includes grant funding for long-term overseas development work, implemented primarily by Irish Non-Governmental Organisations, and for development education work in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (17 Sep 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The situation in Iraq has deteriorated sharply in recent months, with the advance into large areas of northern and western Iraq by the Islamist militia, Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS). As a result of the fighting, hundreds of thousands of people have made their way to Iraq’s Kurdistan region or to contested areas inside the Ninewah Governorate. Tens of thousands more are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The Government is strongly committed to Ireland’s overseas aid programme, which is at the heart of our foreign policy. Our policy on International Development, “One World, One Future”, clearly states our commitment to achieving the UN target of providing 0.7% of Gross National Product (GNP) for Official Development Assistance (ODA), when economic circumstances permit. ...